Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-12
THE OUTLOOK FOR SACRAMENTO.

THE OUTLOOK FOB SACRAMENTO.
At no time in the history Of the State
has Sacramento and vicinity stood so
fairly before the public, or commanded
such Just and broad attention.
That for which the RECORD UNION has
80 many years contended, and only few
weeks ago predicted, for suburban Sacra-
mento and all the region contributing to
this trade center, if the steps We urged
upon the community were taken, appears
S to be upon the very threshold of realiza-
ton. The little furry or jack-knife
swapping excitement in which the
people engaged for brief period
has gone by. But that section of the
State Immediately related to Sacramento
isgrowing steadily and upon q substantial
basis that promises the full development
in which this Journal has never for a
moment lost faith, and which it has de-
clared, and believes to be within the pos
sibilities OF the present
Land subdivision is going on with as
much speed as there is reason to expect.
Outside capitalists are coming this way to
make Investments, and values hold to
steady and true standard and which We
have before taken occasion to define as
demand" when we said recently: How
ever valuable intrinsically land may be-
whether for the value of It's product as
agricultural land, or for its value as space
on the surface of the earth as for business
or residence purposes-its steady, persistent
and enduring value will depend upon the
demand for it."
Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, Yuba, FL Do
RADIO, Amador and Solano counties, those
most Immediately related to this city, are
filling up with precisely the population de-
sired. The lands reclaimed from idleness
in these counties and our own, within the
last three years, are of far greater area, in
the aggregate, than is generally supposed.
The capabilities we have so often pointed
out of valley and foothill lands for fruit
and vine culture have been more than con-
frmed by experience, and there is no longer
any question entertained by home-seekers
upon that point.
In Sacramento county we have about
225, 600 acres of land not one-fourth de-
veloped, that, if brought under irrigation,
viii become as fruitful AZ the best lands in
the State. From a local account in this
issue It viii be observed that fourth
movement of capital has begun in the
matter Of utilizing the vast quantity of
water that runs to waste by our doors, for
the purpose Of irrigating these lands.
Whether the present effort will prove sue
cessful or not we do not know, but that
within a very brief period water will be
artifcially supplied by some one or all of
these companies to these lands, we have no
sort of doubt. When that is done, or so
coon as the positive assurance is given that
1t is to be done, Sacramento suburban
lands viii be rated among the most desir-
able in all this. fruitful State Large land
holdings, already breaking up, will all
subdiyide of necessity; they cannot, in the
nature Of things, hold together. To the
very gates of the city we shall see every
acre brought to the maximum of pro-
ductive capacity, and the whole section
teen with large and prosperous popula-
ton.
The activity in outside lands in the Vi
cinity of Sacramento has been, we believe,
of a genuine character, possessing as little
Of the element of imitation as is possible
in formative period. But assuming that
any one of the four capitalized ventures to
bring water to Sacramento lands viii sue
coed, there will result such substantial and
uninhated advance in demand for lands in
Sacramento county as the conservative
and weil-wishing desire; an advance with
out any of the factors OF uncertainty.
Such success We believe will be attained,
and that within years time.
Whoever will glance at the outline map
We print on another page, to illustrate the
subject, win see that Sacramento is q natu-
raj commercial center, and cannot escape,
if it would, the future of great city. On
the subject of the centrality of the place,
its advantages as depot Of supply, and It's
trade facilities, the RECORD UNION has so
often enlarged during the past fifteen
years, and so frequently illustrated by sta
tistical and other proofs, that it is not neces-
sary to recapitulate them now. The San
Francisco Chronicle of yesterday, in edi-
torial comment upon Sacramento's fu-
ture," is convinced of the truth that it is
one of great promise, and that we are
about to enter upon new era of prosperity
and commercial importance. That, or any
other journal, that dispassionately con-
siders the location of the city; its river and
rail connections; the activity of railway
builders in constructing feeders to the
trunk lines that converge here; the great
valley of which Sacramento is the natural
commercial center its relation to the i'm
nse fruit-shipping interests Of the coast